[nmglug] oops! evince

[BrianO'Keefe]

I finally got evince to open pdf's! It only took 20 or 30 hours too.
I uninstalled evince and poppler stuff with synaptic and reinstalled
many times to no avail. I read the lists and saw that there were issues
with poppler, evince and pdf's in the newest versions.
I downloaded source packages for each, in multiple versions, and built
them. Poppler built, evince did not in any version.
I installed epdf (doesn't have print abilities though!) with synaptic
which uninstalled poppler-data-missed that at first. I cleaned up all
the evince and poppler stuff again with:
make-distclean
in the appropriate directories.
I reinstalled poppler-0.8.5 with make and then the latest evince with
synaptic. Now evince works.
I had also previously moved my mime.cache file in ~/.local/share/mime
but it hadn't made a difference. After restarting and now with evince
working the file did not regenerate-interesting.

BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> forgot the stuff!  Brian
>
> I have been working on this for hours and haven't gotten anywhere. I
> have Hardy installed on my G3Powerbook and evince works fine. On my G4
> TiBook it won't open pdf's but it does open ps docs. I checked my
> .local/share/mime directory on the G4 and there is nothing in there that
> refers to either ps or pdf. The G3 has a mimeapps.list in
> .local/share/applications file with:
> [QUOTE][Added Associations]
> application/pdf=userapp-evince-O6PU8T.desktop;
> application/x-shockwave-flash=userapp-gnash-HWEXEU.desktop;
> application/vnd.rn-realmedia=totem-gstreamer.desktop;mplayer.desktop;[/QUOTE]
>
> Whereas the G4 only has:
> [QUOTE][Added Associations]
> application/octet-stream=userapp-gedit-VZ2AFU.desktop;[/QUOTE]
>
> There are mime files in /etc/mime.types that refer to:
> [QUOTE]application/pdf                    pdf
> application/pgp-encrypted
> application/pgp-keys                key
> application/pgp-signature            pgp
> application/pics-rules                prf
> application/pkcs10
> application/pkcs7-mime
> application/pkcs7-signature
> application/pkix-cert
> application/pkix-crl
> application/pkixcmp
> application/postscript                ps ai eps[/QUOTE]
>
> among many others.
>
> Also have:
> /usr/share/mime/application/pdf.xml and
> /usr/share/mime/application/postscript.xml
>
> The /usr/share/mime/application/pdf.xml has:
> [CODE]<mime-type type="application/pdf">
> −
> <!--
> Created automatically by update-mime-database. DO NOT EDIT!
> -->
> <comment>PDF document</comment>
> <comment xml:lang="bg">Документ — PDF</comment>
>
> <snip>
>
> <acronym>PDF</acronym>
> <expanded-acronym>Portable Document Format</expanded-acronym>
> <alias type="application/x-pdf"/>
> <alias type="image/pdf"/>
> </mime-type>[/CODE]
>
> A couple of ideas are that the .local/share files on the G4 have the
> wrong or missing files or,
> the reference in /usr/share/mime/application/pdf.xml to:
> [CODE]<alias type="application/x-pdf"/>[/CODE]
> is wrong. I read something similar on this post:
> http://markmail.org/message/vlvrn3uf5mnlncvv
> I guess I'm thinking that there is a configuration or link problem but
> have no idea how to resolve it. I tried copying my .local/share file
> from the G3 to the G4 and that doesn't work nor does copying any of the
> other files.
> I also tried moving the .local/share and seeing if evince would generate
> another but it won't run at all.
>
> Bottom line is that if 2 completely updated Hardy installs on 2 ppc
> boxes can't both run evince, I don't think this is a bug.
>
>